Debra Craine
Debra Craine is Deputy Arts Editor and Chief Dance Critic of The Times. She has studied ballet, modern dance, jazz, and dance notation. Debra has contributed to several leading reference books on dance, including The International Dictionary of Ballet (1993) and has worked as a theatre critic. She has been writing about dance for more than twenty years for publications in Great Britain and North America, and has appeared many times on radio as a dance critic. Judith Mackrell is Dance Critic of...See more
Debra Craine is Deputy Arts Editor and Chief Dance Critic of The Times. She has studied ballet, modern dance, jazz, and dance notation. Debra has contributed to several leading reference books on dance, including The International Dictionary of Ballet (1993) and has worked as a theatre critic. She has been writing about dance for more than twenty years for publications in Great Britain and North America, and has appeared many times on radio as a dance critic. Judith Mackrell is Dance Critic of The Guardian. She studied English and Philosophy at the University of York and the University of Oxford. From 1981-86 she was a part-time lectuerer in English and Dance at the University of Oxford, Oxford Polytechnic, and the Roehampton Institute, and has been a freelance dance writer and arts broadcaster since 1986. Judith was also made an Honorary Fellow of the Laban Centre for Dance in 1986. Her previous books include Out of Line, Reading Dance, and Life in Dance: Darcey Bussell (1998). See less
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